Lizq

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Lizq
لزق
Early Iron Age
PeriodsIron Age
Satellite ofLizq
Site notes
Discovered1979
Excavation dates1981
ArchaeologistsStephan Kroll
ConditionRuined
Northern face of the Jebel Radhania (or Jebel Ruwaydhah), on top of which the Early Iron Age Lizq fort, L1, was built

Lizq is an

Early Iron Age
.

Description

The site was discovered in 1979 during the archaeological exploration of

rescue excavation
. They did an ad hoc restoration of the stairs which lead up the northern face of the mountain. Since there are several sites near Lizq town, the fort is disambiguated as 'L1'.

The Lizq fort owes its existence to the reliable occurrence of water at a natural causeway at the southern side of the central mountains. The main fort on the western mountain peak is some 175 m wide and has a surface of more than 20.000 m2 in surface area. This makes it the largest Early Iron Age fort in central Oman. The location of the Iron Age village associated with the fort remains unknown. No

falaj was discovered.[2]

Important is Kroll's comparison of the pottery with that of Iron Age Iran. [3]

See also

Sources

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References

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  2. ^ Paul Yule, Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia, Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014, 31-34 Fig. 12.
  3. ^ Kroll S. (1991). "Zu den Beziehungen eisenzeitlicher Keramikkomplexe in Oman und Iran". In Schippman, Klaus; Herling, Anja; Salles, Jean-François (eds.). Golf-Archäologie: Mesopotamien, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate und Oman. Internationale Archäologie (in German). Vol. 6. Buch am Erlbach: M.L. Leidorf. pp. 315–320.
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  4. ^ Nayeem, Mohammed (1996). Prehistory and protohistory of the Arabian peninsula.¬The¬ Sultanate of Oman. Vol. 4. Hyderabad: Hyderabad. pp. 221–222 fig. 25. .
  5. ^ Kroll, Stephan (1998). Mouton, M.; Carrez, F. (eds.). Assemblage céramiques des sites de l'Age du fer de la peninsula d'Oman. Documents d'archéologie de l'Arabie. Lyon: MAISON DE L'ORIENT MEDITERRANEEN. .
  6. ^ Potts, Daniel (1992). The Arabian Gulf in Antiquity. Vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon. pp. 357, 373, 394, pl. xiia. .
  7. ^ Yule, Paul (2001). 'Die Gräberfelder in Samad al-Shan (Sultanat Oman): Materialien zu einer Kulturgeschichte. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung, Orient-Archäologie (in German). Vol. 4. Rahden: Leidorf. pp. I, 386 site 13.32, II Pl. 591a. .
  8. ^ Cleuziou, S.; Tosi, M. (2007). In the shadow of the ancestors: The Prehistoric Foundations of the Early Arabian Civilization in Oman. Muscat: Ministry of Heritage and Culture. pp. 287–288 figs. 304–305.
  9. ^ Kroll, Stephan (2013). "The Early Iron Age Lizq Fort, Sultanate of Oman". Zeitschrift für die Kultur außereuropäischen Kulturen. 5: 159–220. .
  10. ^ Mouton, Michel; Schiettecatte, Jérémie (2014). In the desert margins. The settlement process in ancient South and East Arabia. Arabia Antica. Vol. 9. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider. pp. 82, 86, 95. .
  11. ^ Magee, Peter (2014). The Archaeology of Prehistoric Arabia: Adaptation and Social Formation from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Cambridge World Archaeology. New York: Cambridge. p. 236. .

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